Matchday programme · Victor Akhidenor, Nigerian sports journalist
Nigerian football talks back. Pele takes notes.
Fifteen years in Nigerian sports newsrooms. The quotable, the quarrelsome and the occasionally unhinged. Here, he writes it all down. Sometimes with a straight face.
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By Herbert Anijekwu"From the player who calls every referee a thief, to the coach whose post-match press conference is really a sermon, Nigerian football has always talked back. I have simply been taking notes."
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